Armageddon Or Evolution?: The Scientific Method and Escalating World ProblemsWe are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions. |
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... ordinary language and conventional understand- ings fail and must be transcended . It is essentially the task of the social sciences ... to create new and “ extraordinary ” languages , to help men learn to speak them , and to mediate ...
... ordinary language and conventional understand- ings fail and must be transcended . It is essentially the task of the social sciences ... to create new and “ extraordinary ” languages , to help men learn to speak them , and to mediate ...
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... extraordinary language in their systematic relationships , their abstract nature , their derivation from the literatures of the social sciences ( by contrast with being restricted to ordinary language ) , and the fact that they can work ...
... extraordinary language in their systematic relationships , their abstract nature , their derivation from the literatures of the social sciences ( by contrast with being restricted to ordinary language ) , and the fact that they can work ...
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... extraordinary language of the social sciences . And by so doing we begin to learn how to use a very broad approach to the scientific method in our everyday lives . This approach by no means substitutes for the everyday language we are ...
... extraordinary language of the social sciences . And by so doing we begin to learn how to use a very broad approach to the scientific method in our everyday lives . This approach by no means substitutes for the everyday language we are ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Physical and Biological Structures | 23 |
Personality Structures | 57 |
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